The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
BELL HOOKSLove is an action, never simply a feeling.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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